Call & Response:
Writing to Connect
with self, ancestors, and spirit
with self, ancestors, and spirit
Welcome
Are you desiring tools and opportunities to slow down? Are you finding the need and desire to trust yourself and your journey enough to truly hear your own voice and follow your intuition? Do you ever feel a call or a pull and want to have greater confidence in understanding how you're being guided? Perhaps you have a passion for genealogy and ancestry? Or, you're looking to heal the divide between you and your ancestors.
If so, this self-paced three-week series is for you!
In this generative writing series, I will share tips and resources to help you:
1. listen more deeply,
2. connect with the spirit of your ancestors and your spirit guides to gain insight, knowledge and inspiration.
3. trust what you are hearing,
4. use creative writing as your companion.
I believe this understanding of the "call and response" to be sacred work, and I will walk alongside you as you go within to hear what you most desire, connect with the spiritual world, write your story (in whatever genre speaks to you).
If you have taken my "Writing the Ancestors," this series goes deeper. If you want to have a clearer connection with your own spirit, or hear from an ancestor, or be one with the earth or your spirit guides, this series will provide you with the opportunity to start or deepen your own practice.
This is perfect for those who want to stop wondering what to write and dive into writing inspired by their ancestors, Spirit, and their deeper self.
If so, this self-paced three-week series is for you!
In this generative writing series, I will share tips and resources to help you:
1. listen more deeply,
2. connect with the spirit of your ancestors and your spirit guides to gain insight, knowledge and inspiration.
3. trust what you are hearing,
4. use creative writing as your companion.
I believe this understanding of the "call and response" to be sacred work, and I will walk alongside you as you go within to hear what you most desire, connect with the spiritual world, write your story (in whatever genre speaks to you).
If you have taken my "Writing the Ancestors," this series goes deeper. If you want to have a clearer connection with your own spirit, or hear from an ancestor, or be one with the earth or your spirit guides, this series will provide you with the opportunity to start or deepen your own practice.
This is perfect for those who want to stop wondering what to write and dive into writing inspired by their ancestors, Spirit, and their deeper self.
Outline
Week 1. What's the Journey?
We set our intentions, get to know one another, and begin our journey to open our hearts and minds, setting us up for a successful journey. Tips on altar creations and other ways to deepen your communion with yourself, your ancestors and spirit guides will be offered.
Week 2. What's the Call?
Picking up from the previous week, we look at how to open and listen (and to whom or what). How to prepare yourself to be a vessel and a scribe for that which lies beneath the noise. How to strengthen intuition and discernment. There will be time for writing prompts and Q&A.
Week 3. What's the Response?
How do you write based on what we hear? How do you transcribe the spiritual inklings? How do you build and nurture your relationships with that of the spirit and/or ancestors and write from that voice? There will be time for writing prompts and Q&A.
We set our intentions, get to know one another, and begin our journey to open our hearts and minds, setting us up for a successful journey. Tips on altar creations and other ways to deepen your communion with yourself, your ancestors and spirit guides will be offered.
Week 2. What's the Call?
Picking up from the previous week, we look at how to open and listen (and to whom or what). How to prepare yourself to be a vessel and a scribe for that which lies beneath the noise. How to strengthen intuition and discernment. There will be time for writing prompts and Q&A.
Week 3. What's the Response?
How do you write based on what we hear? How do you transcribe the spiritual inklings? How do you build and nurture your relationships with that of the spirit and/or ancestors and write from that voice? There will be time for writing prompts and Q&A.
In our four weeks together, you will be invited to learn and experience:
What you will receive in "Call & Response," the self-paced program:
- How to come into your body to hear your inner voice
- How to listen deeply into the silence and the sacred
- How to create space in your home and life for this calling
- How to better trust your inspiration and interpretations
- How to attend to the spirit and ancestors in the busy day-to-day of our life
- Ways to write (and edit) that are true to you and the call & response sacred dance
What you will receive in "Call & Response," the self-paced program:
- Videos divided by weekly topics that include talks from Jacinta and discussions
- Writing prompts that you can use for new work or revisions.
- Tips on writing with the ancestors and spirit guides, such as altar creation, how to make the most of visits to cemeteries, etc.
- At-home practices to help you get more out of your head and into your body and spirit.
- A playlist and a list of resources to accompany your journey.
Photo of tree at cemetry during in-person session taken by Katie Bloedau